Peeping at someone you know from a vehicle is a pretty pointless and annoying thing to do. Is it really going to enhance either person's day that much if the whole procedure is actually successful?
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11333 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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@unhurt - not been beeped at for doing the instant pedestrian trick at lights but you do get lots of indignant stares as if you are in some way cheating.
It's like people cannot get their heads around the flexibility riding a bike affords..
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Haha! Mr Bean perfectly encapsulates the mind of the modern driver. The episode where he gets dressed and brushes his teeth etc while driving is shockingly close to the truth.
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Lots on honking at Inverleith/Ferry Rd junction last night.
Turns out a car load of lads stopped in a queue for red traffic light, the driver got out and relieved himself on his rear wheel arch, daylight.
The car as a portable facility, discuss.Posted 8 years ago # -
and this
I think the original strap line came from this quote
"Not so, according to a friend of mine at the time who said: “Those are mere technicalities. You become a driver on the day you first confidently apply mascara while going round Hyde Park Corner.” I wonder what he’s up to these days."
I know the article is supposed to be humourous, but...
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Tweeted @RoyalMail, and they say
"Thank you for taking the time to give us this information, it’s much appreciated."Posted 8 years ago # -
Oh, and while I'm here, the even more rubbish driving than the man on his phone award goes to the driver who overtook the car behind me, and me, in a 30, when I was going downhill, where there are road narrowing buildouts and traffic island pinchpoints, and a school (complete with lollipop lady), nearly taking out two oncoming cyclists in the process.
But they made it to the station in time for their train, so that's OK...
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White van driver turning right onto Ferrymuir Gait in S Queensferry, arguing down the phone (with hand gestures) while his colleague sat looking impassively on.
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Driver on Easter Road who pulled out from behind a bus into oncoming traffic (me). When I smiled, waved and shrugged I got an angry gesture to the side and shouted "Well move over then!" rather than the traditional sheepish smile and sorry-I-thought-I-had-more-time wave.
Somehow he thought the logical thing for me to do was shoulder check and move into the straight-on lane so he could take the right turn one for himself.
Of course, with a car bearing down on me from a bus length away, the last thing I was doing was taking my eyes off it.
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Driver MGIF'd me on the northbound carriageway of Leith Walk just before Brunswick Street and nearly caused a serious injury.
He was so keen to get into Brunswick Street that he did a superfast overtake on the inside lane without checking the road ahead and nearly hit a workman who was crossing Brunswick Street. The workman was wearing a high-viz tabard for extra irony points.
MGIF is a disease that gets people killed.
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Overtaken by something which looked like a Mini wearing an SUV costume which had to go half-way into the westbound tram lane going east on West Maitland Street this morning, with a queue of vehicles at the red lights clearly visible ahead.
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Yesterday MGIF Audi on Cammo walk was so keen to get past me that he took 3 successive speed bumps far too fast and scraped his undercarriage on each of them.
Today, again on Cammo Walk Eastbound, car overtook me at speed on the blind corner by the car park. He would have hit anything coming the other way.
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"Mini wearing an SUV costume."
Like it
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A faux four by four.
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petit fours by fours?
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Heading west from Randolph Place to Melville Street, most drivers coming the other way don't seem to realise Randolph Place is a real street that people might want to exit from. Came very very close to being taken out by a lady in a dark grey Honda Civic this morning, turning right out of Melville Street, with me in full-on visibility mode.
She hauled on brakes, and as I turned to wave vociferously she was studying the lights on the other side (I presume trying to see if I'd gone through a green man, when in actuality it was the pedestrians walking against the red).
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Hmmmm. I thought I was being terribly clever when I coined faux-by-four the other evening. Apparently neither clever nor coining a phrase.
i am disappoint.
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I had a MGIF who overtook me at the top of Craigleith Road and then indicated left to pull into the garage. I was going in there too so I asked him why he bothered to overtake.
He ignored me so I just finished with a comment of impatient driving like that causes accidents and went on my merry way.
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This thread had dropped of the front page, which is against the natural order of things. So I'll volunteer the hire car which drove across a George St zebra crossing I had stopped for & which had a ped nearly midway across. Fortunately she was in the wide awake club.
I pondered a word at the next lights, but given the passenger was nose deep in map (that might have been the problem in itself) and the likely communication difficulties, I left it. VisitScotland would be proud.
At least they were driving on the right (well, left I suppose) side of the road.
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LOTS of general traffic proceeding up Princes St yesterday as S St David St is closed, including two who then turned right up Hanover St across the green man.
To me the implication of the closure is not sufficiently being signed and there should be BIG no entry signs at Waverley Bridge.
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@Klaxon in that chaos yesterday I got repeatedly beeped at and verbally abused by some "young lads" in a black Ford Focus.
What had I done to deserve that? I had pulled over to allow space for an ambulance to pass.
I let the focus pass me before it immediately got caught in a queue of traffic which had to pull to the side to let a fire engine pass. I tucked in behind the fire engine and had an blue light escort up Leith Street and the bridges :-)
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Not actually any rubbish driving (although it would be rubbish for anybody in a car), but there appear to be sizeable road works being set up by the King's Theatre junction which had led to long queues in all directions. It also meant that Tarvit Street was closed so I jumped off the bike to push along the pavement before crossing the junction cautiously (also on foot) and then smugly cycling along Gilmore Place past the queueing vehicles (amazingly none of which were trying to three point turn or drive down the wrong side of the road to turn right).
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Was it the large Jewson open bed truck or the white minivan with "school bus" sticker on the back that beeped and shouted abuse at the cyclist on Leith Walk this morning?
Trick question, of course, they both did. Drivers using horns instead of steering wheel and brakes. Just push on through guys, I'm sure that's what your driving instructor taught you.
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MGIF seems to be getting worse and worse.
Had a lovely one last week, overtaken as I headed downhill, in a 20 zone, just before a 90 degree blind corner. Obviously that requires being overtaken 20 yards before the corner, going round the corner on the wrong side of the road, and then pulling into a parking space ten yards after the corner.
This morning I indicated to move out past a stopping bus. No worries, lots of space before the.... white Audi. Ah. Just HAD to overtake me as I overtook the bus, with traffic closing in the opposite direction, all to get held up at the next red light as I sailed past the queue they had joined.
Also thinking of making some signs for Holyrood Park, on the low road to the south, just reminding people that it's a blind corner (and I'm doing 25-30mph, though not sure there'll be space for that) and therefore they should really be hanging back, then passing once we're round the corner if they so wish (at which point they'll be breaking the law to do so of course).
Still, definitely feeling the benefits of cycling are outweighing the few morons behind the wheel just now (I must be passed by or pass or have coming in the opposite direction about 500, 600, 700? drivers every day just now, and roughly 3 or 4 are properly terrible).
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Tonight 4:16 on Broomhouse Drive, presumably heading back to their bankhead depot, an SGB scaffold HGV with the driver looking at and tapping his smartphone screen whilst driving. Absolute disgrace. The company have been emailed
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Graham's Dairy delivery van, parked mostly on the footway and partially in the ASL at the top of Easter Road. The driver eventually emerged from London Road and had to wait for another cyclist in the ASL to move out of his way before he could re-enter the cab. Didn't get the plate but the vehicle had a distinctive red-paint-tinged scraped on its right front wing which should allow them to identify the vehicle and driver.
Fishers Laundry delivery van FD63 EOG, which drove through the red light at the pedestrian crossing on the cowgate just after leaving the stupid footway-loading-zone on the Gilded Balloon replacement flats. When I passed it later on in a queue its driver was holding and studying a handheld electronic device.
Taxi LN63 XZA, who was incautiously close along Castle Terrace, right behind me turning into the West Approach and then appeared to be trying to get past me (two inches off my mudguard) just before the turn-right lane into Canning Street begins, into which I was going. The driver had his window down as he passed on the left after it became obvious that I was on the right-hand-side of the lane for a reason but wasn't shouting anything comprehensible. Didn't get the number but I hope the plate will be sufficient.
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Yesterday was driver of taxi 1017 (I must send an email) who decided that a gnat's pube width was enough space to afford me in a bus lane despite the general lane to the right being completely clear. I caught up with him a mile further on and gave him a firm shaking of my head.
This morning was the Audi driver who completely blew through the red lights at the western end of London Road. I was ahead and to the left of him, and stopped in plenty time. He was a long way back, but accelerators are well known to stop the space-time continuum and hold a light on amber. Obviously.
I garnered a smile from one of the pedestrians crossing by shaking my fist and shouting, "Bl**dy cyclists, always running red lights!"
Seemed a morning for German cars and close passes.
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To balance the Audi karma a little - An Audi driver was the first in a queue of ~10 who didn't go through the temporary red light on Brunswick Road last night.
He was 6-7th in the queue.
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